Cindy, what a poignant eulogy that captured a ray of the light from the star that was Stan.  I was planning another adventure with a good friend to the Arctic, knowing Stan would say “why not”. He taught me to think that way, and I am a better person for it. I wish I could lessen the void in your heart.
Chris Geankoplis

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 8:45 PM Rod Ellner via Rhodes22-list <
rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:

> Cindy and family:
>
> Stan (Rose & Elton)……THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES ❤️😊❤️
>
> Rod & Mary Ellner
> WI/now Colorado
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 19, 2024, at 5:38 PM, Frank Goldsmith <goldsmith.cf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Cindy,
> >
> > What a wonderful, beautiful tribute to an extraordinary man.  I am so
> saddened to hear this news that we know would not be long in coming, but I
> admire the full and productive life Stan lived with his characteristic
> humor and grace.  So many of us — the solar system he created — have
> benefited from his life’s labors, and we all mourn with you his passing.
> >
> > May his memory be for a blessing.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > Frank Goldsmith
> > S/V Mary Bess (Rhodes 22 1985/2001)
> > Fairview, NC
> > Lake Keowee, SC
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 19, 2024, at 4:12 PM, Cindy Spitzer <cindyspitzer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Stanley Spitzer – the creator and relentless innovator of the Rhodes 22
> >> sailboat; the inventor of the earlier Picnic 17; the love of Rose
> Spitzer’s
> >> life for more than 70 years; father of Cindy, Scott, and Skip Spitzer;
> dear
> >> brother of Elton Spitzer (also a legend in his time); the impossibly
> >> precocious first born of Harold and Gertrude Spitzer; the Purdue
> University
> >> trained electrical engineer, self-taught Madison Avenue copywriter,
> >> management consultant, wire recorder salesman, and builder of
> mid-century
> >> homes so unconventional he had to go to court to defend his roof lines;
> the
> >> 98-year-old World War II Navy veteran; the perpetually young risk-taker
> who
> >> never saw a mountain too tall or a dream too distant; the skinny can-do
> kid
> >> from Brooklyn who dragged a sunken sailboat out of Sheepshead Bay and
> >> thought he would live forever – has died.
> >>
> >> Every person is a universe.  A solar system of friends, relatives, and
> >> countless people we touch in countless way, often without fully knowing
> who
> >> or how much.
> >>
> >> And every death is a universe imploding.  A world and all its stories
> >> suddenly gone.
> >>
> >> No words can capture a person’s life.  Just know that if you are reading
> >> this right now, that means you – the full, evolving universe of you –
> >> intersected with Stan in some way and left your mark.  As he certainly
> left
> >> his on us.
> >>
> >> Goodbye, daddy.
> >
>